Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2007 16:14 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
"What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program?
Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach. He had the temerity to make Redmond's software better. As a hobby, Cansdale developed an add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio. TestDriven.NET allows unit test suites to be run directly from within the Microsoft IDE. Cansdale gave away this gadget on his website, and initially received the praises of Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft was so pleased with him, it gave him a Most Valuable Professionals award, which it says it gives to 'exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who voluntarily share their high quality, real world expertise with others'. However, his cherished status did not last."
Thread beginning with comment 246133
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-08-18
Member since:2006-06-09
Member since:
2005-07-20
>a) Trust Microsoft
>b) Code any applications using their development tools
>Stick to open, non proprietary languages and you'll be >right.
>Dave
But is this is how one makes a good living, what options does one have? In any case using MS tools is quite funny from a technical point of view.